Α conveyor chain and horizontally guide wheel having a hub, an outer wheel rotatable about the hub and a bearing race between said hub and said outer wheel. An oiling gap, the top opening of which is located radially inwardly of the bearing race, extends outwardly and downwardly and opens into said bearing race, such that a direct downward path to the bearings is eliminated. The hub and the inside of the outer wheel have opposed frustroconical surfaces which define a frustroconical path from the top wheel surface oiling gap opening to the wheel bearings. The guide wheel also includes a blow out gap on the bottom aide which is formed by a blow out path which becomes wider than the bearing race as It proceeds downwardly to its opening at the bottom of the wheel, making it easier for debris to be blown out of the hearings either from air blown down through the oiling gap at the top or blown up from the blow out gap at the bottom.
B65G 17/38 - Chaînes ou éléments de traction similairesLiaisons entre les éléments de traction et les porte-charges
F16C 19/14 - Paliers à contact de roulement pour mouvement de rotation exclusivement avec roulements à billes essentiellement du même calibre, en une ou plusieurs rangées circulaires pour charges à la fois radiales et axiales
F16C 33/66 - Pièces ou détails particuliers pour la lubrification
A conveyor chain and horizontally oriented guide wheel having a hub, an outer wheel rotatable about the hub and a bearing race between said hub and said outer wheel. An oiling gap, the top opening of which is located radially inwardly of the bearing race, extends outwardly and downwardly and opens into said bearing race, such that a direct downward path to the bearings is eliminated. The hub and the inside of the outer wheel have opposed frustroconical surfaces which define a frustroconical path from the top wheel surface oiling gap opening to the wheel bearings. The guide wheel also includes a blow out gap on the bottom side which is formed by a blow out path which becomes wider than the bearing race as it proceeds downwardly to its opening at the bottom of the wheel, making it easier for debris to be blown out of the bearings either from air blown down through the oiling gap at the top or blown up from the blow out gap at the bottom.
B65G 17/38 - Chaînes ou éléments de traction similairesLiaisons entre les éléments de traction et les porte-charges
F16C 19/14 - Paliers à contact de roulement pour mouvement de rotation exclusivement avec roulements à billes essentiellement du même calibre, en une ou plusieurs rangées circulaires pour charges à la fois radiales et axiales
F16C 33/66 - Pièces ou détails particuliers pour la lubrification
A conveyor chain having links joined by link pin biased into any of multiple operating positions with its positioning head blocked against rotation by engagement with a detent on a positioning link. The pin can be lifted so that its head is above the level of the detent, rotated to a new operating position, and allowed to be biased back into its position with the head again blocked against rotation by the detent, whereby the wear surface of the pin can be changed to accommodate for chain wear occurring when a link rotates relative to the link pin.
B65G 17/40 - Chaînes jouant le rôle de porte-charges
B65G 17/06 - Transporteurs comportant un élément de traction sans fin, p. ex. une chaîne transmettant le mouvement à une surface porteuse de charges continue ou sensiblement continue, ou à une série de porte-charges individuelsTransporteurs à chaîne sans fin dans lesquels des chaînes constituent la surface portant la charge avec une surface portante formée par une série de maillons, de plaques ou plates-formes reliés entre eux, p. ex. longitudinaux
F16G 13/10 - Chaînes de transmission à joints universels
B65G 17/38 - Chaînes ou éléments de traction similairesLiaisons entre les éléments de traction et les porte-charges
F16G 13/06 - Chaînes de transmission dont les maillons sont reliés par des axes parallèles, avec ou sans rouleaux
A conveyor or drive chain wear monitor includes two sensors spaced apart from one another a predetermined distance which is less than the distance between the two selected measuring points on a chain. Two timers are provided, one of which is a chain speed timer and the other of which is the chain wear timer. The two timers are both controlled by the spaced sensors. The problem of sensor beams being broken by irrelevant beam breaking obstacles located between the successive spaced measuring points is solved by providing an ignore obstacle software routine in the wear monitor computer. The ignore obstacle software routine allows a user to program the monitor to ignore any number of irrelevant obstacles which might occur between two spaced measuring points on a chain.
G01N 3/56 - Recherche de la résistance à l'usure ou à l'abrasion
B65G 43/02 - Dispositifs de commande, p. ex. de sécurité, d'alarme ou de correction des erreurs détectant une condition physique dangereuse des porte-charges, p. ex. pour stopper l'entraînement en cas d'échauffement
G01M 13/02 - Mécanismes d’engrènementMécanismes de transmission
A conveyor or drive chain wear monitor includes two sensors spaced apart from one another a predetermined distance which is less than the distance between the two selected measuring points on a chain. Two timers are provided, one of which is a chain speed timer and the other of which is the chain wear timer. The two timers are both controlled by the spaced sensors. The problem of sensor beams being broken by irrelevant beam breaking obstacles located between the successive spaced measuring points is solved by providing an ignore obstacle software routine in the wear monitor computer. The ignore obstacle software routine allows a user to program the monitor to ignore any number of irrelevant obstacles which might occur between two spaced measuring points on a chain.
G01B 11/02 - Dispositions pour la mesure caractérisées par l'utilisation de techniques optiques pour mesurer la longueur, la largeur ou l'épaisseur
G01B 11/04 - Dispositions pour la mesure caractérisées par l'utilisation de techniques optiques pour mesurer la longueur, la largeur ou l'épaisseur spécialement adaptés pour mesurer la longueur ou la largeur d'objets en mouvement
G01B 11/14 - Dispositions pour la mesure caractérisées par l'utilisation de techniques optiques pour mesurer la distance ou la marge entre des objets ou des ouvertures espacés
A method and apparatus for repairing overhead conveyor chain by removing a section of track, locating a mobile repair station under the exposed track, and effecting the needed repair on the chain by cycling the intact chain past the mobile repair station and repairing it as it passes. Repair embodiments include re-swaging and repair, replacement or rotation of chain links.
A conveyor or drive chain wear monitor includes two sensors spaced apart from one another a predetermined distance which is less than the distance between the adjacent measuring points on a chain. Two timers are provided, one of which is a chain speed timer and the other of which is the chain wear timer. The two timers are both controlled by the spaced sensors. The upstream sensor, as determined by the direction of travel of the chain, turns the speed timer on and the wear timer off. The downstream sensor turns the speed timer off and the wear timer on. Thus, when a measuring point passes the upstream sensor, the speed timer is turned on, and is not turned off again until the same measuring point passes the downstream timer. Knowing the distance between the upstream and downstream sensors, the computing module determines the speed at which the chain is moving as a function of the length of time, as determined by the speed timer, it took a measuring point on the chain to pass from the upstream sensor to the downstream sensor. When a measuring point passes the downstream sensor, it turns on the wear timer. The wear timer then remains on until a measuring point on the chain passes the upstream sensor. The wear timer will thus be turned on by a downstream measuring point, and turned off by the following upstream measuring point. Knowing the speed of the chain, the computing module can now determine the degree of wear on the chain as a function of the speed of the chain and the wear time which the wear timer is on, as compared to the baseline value for the same function when the chain is new.
G01B 11/14 - Dispositions pour la mesure caractérisées par l'utilisation de techniques optiques pour mesurer la distance ou la marge entre des objets ou des ouvertures espacés
G01B 21/16 - Dispositions pour la mesure ou leurs détails, où la technique de mesure n'est pas couverte par les autres groupes de la présente sous-classe, est non spécifiée ou est non significative pour mesurer la distance ou le jeu entre des objets espacés
A conveyor or drive chain wear monitor includes two sensors spaced apart from one another a predetermined distance which is less than the distance between the adjacent measuring points on a chain. Two timers are provided one of which is a chain speed timer and the other of which is the chain wear timer. The two timers are both controlled by the spaced sensors. The upstream sensor, as determined by the direction of travel of the chain, turns the speed timer on and the wear timer off.
An. overhead conveyor, components therefor and method for making same, in which the conveyor trolley utilizes load wheels having double row bearings, and is designed for a channel having a height "X," but is built with a maximum allowable load value which is equal to or greater than the maximum allowable load value for a trolley used in channels of height greater than X.
An overhead conveyor, components therefor and method for making same, in which the conveyor chain has a nominal pitch "X," but a maximum allowable chain pull value which is equal to or greater than the maximum allowable chain pull value for a chain having a nominal pitch of X + 1. Trolleys can be attached to the chain at intervals which differ from the intervals of a chain with pitch of X + 1. Fewer synchronized drives are required for driving longer chains. A lower pitch chain can be used to drive larger trolleys, without sacrificing the maximum allowable chain pull value always used in conjunction with the larger trolley.
Conveyor lines, chain conveyors, chains for conveyors and fitted attachments and structural and replacement parts therefor; conveyor trolleys and fitted attachments and structural and replacement parts therefor, structural parts for conveyors, namely, conveyor rails being for supporting conveyor trolleys, conveyor channels being structural parts of conveyors for carrying chains for conveyors
A conveyor system includes a conveyor line, a conveyor chain movable along the conveyor line, and an electronic device located at a movable component that moves with the chain along the conveyor line. The electronic device may comprise a locating device operable to generate a locating output indicative of a location of the movable component along the conveyor line. Optionally, the electronic device may comprise a sensing device operable to sense a chain characteristic at the component and to generate a sensor output indicative of the chain characteristic. Data collected by the electronic device may be stored at the device and/or transmitted to a controller of the conveyor line. The controller may be operable to determine the chain characteristic at a particular location of the transmitting device in response to the device output.
METAL CHAINS, METAL CHAIN ATTACHMENT BRACKETS, CONVEYOR RAILS AND I-BEAMS MATERIAL HANDLING MACHINES AND SYSTEM COMPONENTS, NAMELY, CONVEYORS AND REPLACEMENT PARTS THEREFOR, CONVEYOR WHEELS, CONVEYOR ROLLERS, CAM FOLLOWERS, TROLLEY WHEELS, BALL BEARINGS, ROLLER BEARINGS, NEEDLE BEARINGS, BRACKETS, TROLLEY BRACKETS AND LUBRICATORS
12 - Véhicules; appareils de locomotion par terre, par air ou par eau; parties de véhicules
Produits et services
Chain, Chain Attachment Brackets, and Parts Thereof Conveyors and Parts Therefor-Namely, Trolley and Conveyor Wheels, Trolley Brackets, and Trolley Attachments and Hardware; Roller Turn Rollers and Conveyor Roller Assemblies; Bearing Assemblies; Cam Followers;[ Idler and Drive Pulleys; Lawnmower Shaft and Pulley Spindle Assemblies and Wheels] [ Bogie Wheels ]
